Is anybody else incredibly angry today?
I find myself enraged at the Hobby Lobby SCOTUS decision.
I am visibly shaking as I read and respond to some of the right wing comments on fb threads--particularly ones
put up by progressive organizations. I usually try to avoid engaging these right wing nutjobs, but today,
I am having a very hard time not jumping on the keyboard.
I am dumbfounded, well, not really, at the perpetuation by SCOTUS of the lies regarding some of the contraceptive
methods.
The entire legal challenge against the Obama administration was based on the fundamental lie that certain types of FDA-approved contraception can end a pregnancy. The plaintiffs in this suit took the unscientific stance that pregnancy begins at fertilization and certain types of contraception, like the morning after pill and IUDs, are “abortion-inducing” because they prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg. But according to the legal definition of pregnancy, a woman is not actually considered to be pregnant until a fertilized egg is implanted in her uterine lining — so anything that inhibits ovulation, fertilization, or implantation is defined as birth control. And on top of that, there’s evidence that those types of contraception don’t actually prevent implantation in the first place.
The justices who joined the Court’s 5-4 opinion didn’t appear to be concerned about scientific evidence, however. Monday’s decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, simply allows the business owners to follow their own definition of abortion. “The owners of the businesses have religious objections to abortion, and according to their religious beliefs the four contraceptive methods at issue are abortifacients,” he writes. “If the owners comply with the HHS mandate, they believe they will be facilitating abortions.”
Without challenging the plaintiffs’ definition of what constitutes an abortion or an abortion-inducing drug, the Supreme Court has essentially allowed unscientific beliefs about birth control to carry the weight of the law.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/30/3454815/birth-control-lies-hobby-lobby-ruling/
I am PISSED that some old fart employer wants to tell women which forms of contraception they may use.
What a bunch of patriarchal bullshit! And of course it comes from 5 MEN on the Court.
It is so blatantly discriminatory.
I am SO angry.
Anybody else?
= new reply since forum marked as read
then appoint political operatives to the SC to reverse all progress made, the same progress that has outraged rightwing, immature, childish assholes for decades.
The very idea we would give women rights to their bodies, or rights to minorities, hell, what were we thinking...
I hope you are all very very angry...
on this site who have started with a "it's only 4 types of BC" b*llshit.
I've been getting email after email today asking for $$$ before tonight's deadline and I'm not giving anyone a damned cent. Until some political party shows me they stand for working folks and women all of my cash is going into a "get the hell out of this backwards country" fund.
I am also enraged and hope that many other women in this country are too! Women's healthcare shouldn't be separated from HEALTHCARE.
These are FDA-approved contraceptives! None are abortive. The 5 justices don't understand basic science or medicine.
I was really pissed when Alito said that the reason why it's a substantial burden on their expression of religion is that they believe it's morally wrong to kill an embryo and that's what those drugs/iuds do. Guess what, Alito?! At 3 days post fertilization it's not even a blastocyst!! It's 2 weeks away from being anything close to an embryo.
This isn't "religious freedom". Controlling your reproduction is a personal health issue. Giving employers veto power over their employees healthcare is stunning!
#RememberInNovember #NotMyBossBusiness
And women and workers. Great.
Yeah, pretty angry. But not surprised. I mean we are talking about the court that gave us Citizens United. Don't let comments from crazy righties get you down. They were crazy before the decision, and would have left crazy hateful comments in any event. Hide those nasty threads on fb and have a 
or two
Single payer would x out employer concerns wouldn't it? Maybe we'll see a bigger push for that?
Hope it happens! 
when I saw the ruling was outrageous.
Everything that we, and the women before us have fought so hard for is being stripped away by these righteous Republican thugs. Reading some of the comments of these pasty white Republicans around the country make the statements about women and the judges who blame rape victims, even young girls, they were asking for it. No one should ever refer to this country as civilized.
This ruling is a *clear* violation of the rights of women who may want, or even *need*(and some really do need it), to use contraception. This, ladies and gentlemen, is proof of why we need to GOTV in November, and in 2016, even more so.
I understand it.
We live in a totally corrupted society and this is the kind of bullshit that should be expected.
It does no good to be mad.
In fact it is quite counterproductive to your psyche and deflects your energy away from the solution because you're focusing all your energy toward the stupidity of these corrupt clowns.
All acts begin as thoughts.
Change your mind, first.
- The rest will follow.....
K&R
[center]
[/center]
...but not going anywhere.
• Angry people aren't optimistic at all. They wouldn't be angry if they were thinking positively (optimistically).
• Anger destroys relationships because it is all power with no controls. No focus. It's like a volcano that may help the earth relieve internal pressures, but it destroys everything in its path while doing so.
• Anger is the opposite of self-insight. Anger focuses its energy outwardly toward the world and toward others as the ''cause'' of their problems. Rather than toward the self where all answers truly lie.
• Anger causes violence. Anger is the point you reach when words can go no further. Anger is the reaction to other's violence. Whether it is verbal violence or of or physical variety. Anger is a response, not an act of volition.
• Anger is not a negotiation strategy because you can't control it. Your anger depends upon others making you so, so then how can you negotiate with something you have no control over?
- People just need to calm down and stop letting the world control your emotions.
[center]
[/center]
Karma's only a bastard if you are?
Let's not be sexist, ok?
...bastard/bitch equality is my middle name!
And..... I made you laugh! So it was worth it!!!
each has rammed a dagger in the heart and soul of the Constitution and liberty itself imo. 
Very.
before one of the "fetus personhood" laws makes its way to the Supreme Court. When that happens, they will issue a ruling that sets us back 100 years. They will issue a ruling that not only overturns Roe v. Wade, but goes beyond that to ban abortion entirely. Now we know they will ban birth control as well.
The Supreme Court has been taken over by Opus Dei, and they are beginning to substitute their religious doctrine for scientific fact and the Constitution.
And we can't do a damn thing about it.
if I couldn't laugh I would just sit and cry.
